I tell Flip's story to forget my own. I'm filming and drawing this story, and each time I move forward, I discover that Flip is me, and I am him.

Elena’s path roots deep in her love for storytelling. Coming from Psychology and Visual Arts studies, atBrera’s Fine Art Academy (Milan) she experimented with illustration, photography and new technologies,until she reached filmmaking, her medium of choice, completing her studies in Film Directing in Rome(RUFA) and Prague (FAMU). Since 2014, she is active in the Italian film industry in various roles, especiallyin Production and Direction departments, learning from noted Italian directors. Between a set and another,she kept developing her personal projects and artistic visions and, in 2023, she debuted with her firstfeature-length documentary "The Land You Belong," a Romanian-Italian co-production, premiered at63°Krakow Film Festival and winner of the TOPDOC award at BIOGRAFILM film festival. Through her works,she investigates different themes, inhabited by unique characters within their relationships, experimentingwith the film medium, trying to rise more questions than answers.

I am here presenting a creative documentary feature lenght film "She Got Game" (provisional) and it will be produced by Small Boss Production. The film is a coming of age / sport film journey straddling the realms of the real and the digital, narrated through the perspective  of Giorgia, a 22 year old girl eems an average ordinary girl but, in the virtual realm, she holds an extraordinary talent. From “zero to hero” she is the first European Champion of eFootball 2023, the most prestigious eSports title, and at the beginning of a pro-player career. Following her through the new upcoming competitive season, in both virtual and real world, she will have to find out whether she could fit as a pro-player career or maintain her normal routine; trying to undercover who she is and who she wants to become in a predominantly male world, whose roles are yet to be defined. The story offers the chance to explore the real and digital landscapes from our contemporary youth perspectives, with its uncertainties, doubts and vulnerabilities, through the freedom and vivacious space of the digital "metaverse" which can be promoter for change.

Omer Shamir is an MFA graduate of the Steve Tisch School of Film and Television. During high school and undergraduate programs he lived in India, Mexico and the United States. He made several short films that were presented in festivals worldwide and directed segments for the Netflix Original documentary series “Stories of a Generation” with the participation of Pope Francis and Martin Scorsese. He is co-writing with director Udi Aloni his upcoming feature film and in 2024 will be distributing a short film "A Thousand Sheep" produced by La Cellule. He is currently in the post-production of his first feature documentary “The Abstract and the Very Real” produced by Deux Beaux Garçons. Shamir resides in Paris.

Having escaped Gaza for the safety of Egypt with his wife and four children, a Palestinian photojournalist takes shelter in a rented apartment in Cairo. A close look at one family’s experience of displacement in real time: a fragile balance of the mundane and the dramatic while the war rages on.

Trained as a screenwriter, Julia started out writing fiction. She soon realized that what drives her in cinema is to look at the world through human adventures rooted in reality.
In 2019, she will move to Quebec to study documentary filmmaking techniques at EMCV.
In the summer of 2020, a serious event upset her family. It becomes the subject of her first short film, Sœurs.
With Pour rien nos mondes, Julia takes the time and distance to develop this first raw gesture into a longer, more ambitious form.

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At the age of 22, while in India to study yoga, my little sister Elena was rushed to the hospital. She suffered a violent psychotic attack after being held captive by a man for several days.
I can feel her mind exploding from miles away. I have to go get her. Bring her home.
The film delves into the heart of an intimate exploration of sisterhood, documenting the slow reconstruction of a young woman victimized by one of those all-too-common stories before it is forgotten.

Miriam Gili, born in 1987. After graduating from NABA in painting and visual arts, she attended the master’s program in alternative cinema at EICTV in Sant’Antonio de Los Banos, Cuba. She also completed the MOVIES master’s program at IUAV in Venice. She has presented her works in collective and individual exhibitions at national and international institutions, including the Museum of Contemporary Art in Geneva, Triennale Milano, V-a-c Foundation in Venice, among others.

In Filicudi, a volcanic island in the Aeolian archipelago, a biologist, along with a few assistants, has established a first aid center for marine animal, specializing in log-gerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) that once nested in the archipelago.

Their presence is frowned upon by native fishermen who cannot stand to have lost the privilege of the sea and the pleasure of eating turtle meat.
In their journeys to safeguard the sea, above and beneath the water’s surface, the women gain experience of both ocean and aerial currents, come into contact with the island’s ancestral beliefs gathered by an anthropologist, and become protagonists of a real and imaginary meta-morphosis at the same time.

The rescue of the turtles has an extraordinary outcome that only satellite technologies can capture in its magnificent entirety.

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"The writer and filmmaker Sarah Kechemir was born and lives in Algeria. She is passionate about words, literature and cinema. She is the author of short stories and a contributor to the literary magazine "Edwarda".
Echoes" is her first feature-length documentary.

The three Algerian musicians of INDEX are now geographically separated. But they have managed to bridge the distance by continuing to make music together and are even planning to return to the stage. With them, I revisit the birth of the group in the 90s, in the midst of terrorism. An attempt to retrace the history of one of Algeria's darkest and most complex periods, when the impulse to live was at its height, a period when I was still a child. With Index, I ask myself about this episode in Algerian history, when memory is absent from the national narrative.